
people lose job

, they knew people would lose their jobs.

People will lose their jobs, people will lose their savings, people will find that they cannot get the credit necessary to keep their businesses open or to function at a reasonable level.

But last week the Associated Press reported that an even greater number of people, 108,000, lost their jobs, as U.S. companies dealt with the battered economy right here at home.

This bill allows for clear actions, up-or-down votes on the conference report to prevent Wall Street from melting down like it did 2 years ago and a bill to provide unemployment compensation to people who have lost their jobs who cannot find work in this economy.

On the one hand we have people who lose their jobs after working years and years and are temporarily in need of assistance and should have that assistance.

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citizen abide law

By forcing the IRS, and not the taxpayer, to carry the burden of proof in disputes, we protect legal, law-abiding citizens and end harassing and frivolous claims by maverick agents.

A bill to increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Senators from every State of the Union, from every political persuasion, agreed to a version of the PATRIOT Act that would reauthorize the provisions that were set to expire and which provided the Government with the tools to aggressively pursue the war on terror, while protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens.

This is a blatant attack on our second amendment rights and on our law-abiding citizens.

Furthermore, it is my belief that this basic right should include law-abiding citizens.

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american lose job

And now this bill that was cooked up in secret between the White House and Congressional Republicans without any input from Congressional Democrats will bring our country further into debt, lead to more hard- working Americans losing their jobs, and put a greater share of the tax receipts in the pockets of the Nation's most privileged.

But they are not cheaper because they pay 33 cents an hour; it is just that Americans lost their jobs.

How can we stand by as millions of American workers lose their jobs, as thousands of American companies cannot compete fairly, as our country as a whole has wealth drained from it?

For all the time that we do not pass it, each month 500,000 Americans will lose their jobs.

All these benefits, permanent tax benefits for middle-class families making one-quarter of a million dollars or less, the opportunity to create jobs, the opportunity to take care of a couple million Americans who lost their jobs, the opportunity to bring the private sector back again, the opportunity to give the private sector certainty, none of that is good enough for them.

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government run healthcare

Secretary Mike Leavitt, who is the former Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said: Advocates for a public health-care plan continue to look for a way to give political cover to moderates while advancing their goal of implementing a government-run health- care system.

This is a debate about getting us on that path toward government-run health care.

We know that some here in Washington have wanted government-run health care for many years.

Now they have a government-run health care full of tax hikes and mandates on small businesses, which the NFIB estimates will cost 1.6 million more jobs lost.

We didn't see it materializing into a government-run health care program, as many have alleged here today.

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american have healthcare

As a nation we have 50 million Americans today who have no health insurance and that number has increased.

Speaker, as millions go without health insurance and costs skyrocket, I strongly believe we need commonsense reforms so that all American families can have access to affordable health coverage.

The bill would create affordability credits to ensure that all Americans have more affordable health care coverage.

What we need to do is subject any health proposal, Democrat or Republican, to one simple test: Does it guarantee that all Americans will have health care coverage?

It is time for us to be a part of that representative democracy and forge a bill together that assures all Americans have access to health care reform.

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god bless america

The President said that we ought to pray that God bless America.

When in Namibia, where we were, I suggest you play the Namibian national anthem and leave it to the local mayor to say, as he said to us ``God bless America.''

Mr. Speaker, God bless all listening, and God bless the United States of America.

Mr. Speaker, with that, before I yield back the balance of my time, I will ask God to please bless our men and women in uniform, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq and throughout the world, and I will ask God to please bless America.

I pray that God will always continue to bless America.

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people need help

According to the executive director of the Community Action Agency in Kentucky, Kip Bowmar: February of 2008 marked the first time in the program's history that all 120 Counties in Kentucky ran out of LIHEAP funds, forcing us to close our doors as fuel prices were soaring and people needed help.

Look, there are lots of different things, and I will not go through the litany in terms of unemployment provisions and in terms of helping small businesses, because the thing I would like to do is just say thank the gentleman to the gentleman on behalf of New York, on behalf of the liberty zone, on behalf of all those people who need your help.

Why then should we be concerned about the increase in numbers of people who are condemned to a career as a temporary worker without benefits or minimum wage workers, people who work every day and still need public help?

Those young people need more than help from their families in order to be able to go to college.

There are people who need help who don't have help, and we need to find a way to do that, but it is not this 2,000-page bill.

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god bless troop

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September the 11th and the global war on terrorism.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September 11

In conclusion, God bless the memory of Congressman Sonny Montgomery, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September 11.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war of terrorism.

In conclusion, God bless our troops--and we will never forget September the 11th and the global war on terrorism.

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worker lose job

Workers are losing their jobs, their homes, and their hopes.

This would create a system that is more focused on punishing employers than truly helping workers who lose their jobs.

There are truckers who are losing their jobs.

the impact of not doing something here is huge, on workers losing their jobs.

Speaker, Sara Lee is closing their Virginia apparel factory; 42 workers lose their jobs.

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small business create job

The No. 1 issue facing our country is jobs, and the No. 1 goal of Republicans in 2012 is to continue to make it easier for American small business to create jobs.

Two out of every three new jobs in the United States is created by a small business, but the shutdown is hitting them hard.

Small business owners will be able to spend less time searching for affordable health plans, and more time creating jobs.

President, our Nation's small businesses have created 64 percent of all new jobs in the last 15 years, yet in the last year nearly 85 percent of the jobs lost have come from small businesses.

That is why the President said let us focus on doing things that will help these families and equally, if not more importantly, help small businesses create jobs.

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service connect disability

A bill to increase, effective as of December 1, 1996, the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Veterans Affairs.

I thank the Senator from Maine, Ms. Snowe, the chairman of the Small Business Committee, for making the important point that Federal law requires that a certain percentage of contracts be awarded to firms owned by veterans with service-connected disabilities.

As we reported in VA Health Care: Issues Affecting Eligibility Reform , VA uses a complex priority system--based on such factors as the presence and extent of any service-connected disability, the incomes of veterans with nonservice-connected disabilities, and the type and purpose of care needed--to determine which eligible veterans receive care within available resources.

Under the law that existed and controlled at that time, only those who had been granted a claim for a service-connected disability or demonstrated financial need could turn to the VA for health care services.

Most military retirees who have a service-connected disability are not permitted to collect both their retirement and disability benefits concurrently.

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constitutional (thing) balance budget

I have always wanted to be on the side of those supporting a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.

Let me say that I am someone who will support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.

Let me, to the extent that I can, say to the seniors who are listening to those who would like to make you believe that they are really here arguing to save Social Security, suggest to you that what they are really arguing about is that they don't want a constitutional amendment to balance the budget and they have now hit on what I perceive to be a risky gimmick in an effort to frighten seniors and by that approach defeat a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

They say if we pass this constitutional amendment to balance the budget, the budget will be balanced.

One of the reasons the polls show so many people want a constitutional amendment to balance the budget is two things.

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people have healthcare

But more importantly than that, we have got people who have health care emergencies because of the earthquake, business emergencies, lives literally at stake.

The same on health insurance: If you are trying to increase the number of people who have health insurance, you have to do more than what is in this tax package.

Some writers have called that group the ``contentedly covered,'' the people who already have health care coverage in America today.

We generally think of most people having private health insurance coverage.

People are going to have health insurance they do not now have.

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public held debt

446 511 available to repay debt held by the public....

It has brought with it, as Chairman Greenspan noted, a significant increase in revenues to the Federal Government, which are allowing us to pay down even more rapidly than previously thought the debt now held by the public.

Change in debt held by the public........................

The best way to gauge the level of debt held by the public is to compute that debt as a percentage of our national income, our Gross Domestic Product.

202 Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill to require that the Government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached.

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people pay tax

Real jobs in the U.S. economy for people who will be paying taxes, not being paid unemployment compensation for not working.

It is the people who are going to pay these taxes.

That is why the increase in seniors is going up so dramatically, and the increase in the people working and paying their taxes is going up modestly.

We are talking about giving the money back to the people who earn it, and the first place we ought to look is to people who are married who pay more taxes just because they are married.

This entire debate is about whether or not people who pay no taxes can get a tax cut.

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people lose family

But I think it is also so important for us to look back, figure out what went wrong, and move forward and fix the problems; not to create a political blame game, not to blame the Clinton administration or the Bush administration, but to fix what went wrong yesterday and make it right for tomorrow, so that we do not have 2,800 people lose their lives again.

Now is the time to speak up, not after the people have lost their lives, not after the American people--the American people know what is going to happen here.

We have had a number of people--maybe a dozen or so--who have lost their lives prior to this month in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Let's recognize, whether they were in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, or on airplanes that were commandeered, people were in dangerous situations, and many lost their lives.

Yet the U.S. Government has chosen to discriminate against these people who lost their lives at Fort Hood 4 years ago at the hands of a terrorist, who tragically happened to be a member of the uniformed military of the United States, MAJ Nidal Hasan, who has subsequently been convicted of these crimes.

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american pay tax

Unless there is some extraneous circumstance, I think most Americans voluntarily pay their taxes.

I think that Members of Congress, members of the administration need to take their heads out of the sand, need to start dealing with really some of the very tough issues of Medicare, of Social Security, of annual government overspending, and I would just ask an American that pays taxes to spend a few moments thinking about the absurdity of our tax code in this country.

However, it is not small to Dave and Joann and to the millions of young Americans who pay more in taxes simply because they have formed the basic unit of society--a family.

Why should middle-class Americans, who work hard, pay their taxes, and send their kids to school, not have that kind of security, too?

This bill takes away that freedom, requiring every American to purchase a government-approved health plan, pay a tax, or even go to jail.

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employee provide healthcare

The vast majority of employers who provide health care merely pay for the benefit.

We urge the Senate to support your amendment to ensure that employers will not be sued for voluntarily providing health coverage to 172 million workers.

As chairman of the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations with jurisdiction over employer-provided health care, the issue of mental health parity falls within the purview of this subcommittee.

According to a Gallup poll conducted last September, the vast majority of Americans, 70 percent, are satisfied with their health insurance provided by their employer.

I don't think it's right that you mandate an employer to provide health care insurance or

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people do job

We have people doing this work for free in California, not costing any Federal taxpayer dollars, and the amendment that I offered with the gentleman from California that was passed by, I believe, 380 to 0, allows our people to have continued access.

If you are giving the money to the people doing the work, they will work wonderfully, and things will happen beautifully.

And now you've got people who once had three people doing a job, now there's one.

My amendment to the Department of Defense authorization bill is meant to strengthen our efforts to verify if people in the United States are here legally to do their work.

The people in Mexico who have the jobs that the people in Ohio used to do do not make enough money to buy the very products they make.

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men women serve country

So I have had the privilege of coming from a State that has sent to Washington, DC, men of great honor, great integrity, men and women who have served the country so well.

We are talking about young men and women in our Armed Forces returning home after serving their country in Iraq.

Throughout my years of service to Minnesotans in the Senate, Frank provided wise counsel--especially on behalf of the men and women who, like himself, had served their country in time of war.

' To the smart young man who wrote me that letter and to all of America's veterans, this bill builds on efforts to meet our country's moral obligations to the men and women who so bravely served our country.

I encourage my colleagues to honor the men and women who serve this country and pass this important legislation.

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